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THE NINE- LIVED CORN.
The corn was killed in early May,
The flood had washed it quite away,
i
ge later on it died again,
nd rotted ‘neath the constant rain.
Once more we tolled its final knell;
The seed had not been tested well
Yet,
Then
later it began to spront,
dled. The weeds had run it
out,
4nd later yet, still thin and pale,
It perishes In a storm of hail
Then came a flerce and burning heat.
It died that week of “fired” feet.
And then the awful smut arrived
And not a single stalk survived,
And soon we watched it, in dismay,
Dry up and shrivel quite away,
Then came the last and saddest
death
wilted ‘neath
breath,
It the frost king's
Nine times,
We built
it dled; and yet that fall,
new cribs to hold it all
1
Now tell me is there any cat
With lives enough to equal that?
rcorge Fitch,
tleman.
SSAC SRSA SASISISISS
Pericles. {
2 sasa5eses283 |
By J. Lovering.
The foundaticns of the Burden tor- |
tunes had come out of Gould and |
Curry away back in the early ‘50s,
and on this foundation “Old Ike” |
Burden had raised a substantial mon- |
ument that in passing through the |
hands of his son, Johnny, had, if not
increased in size, been very tastefully |
ornamented. After the death of his
wife, Johnny, now the Hon. Jonathan |
Burden, had devoted himself solely |
to the education of his daughter, Ade. |
laide. After her escape from the
hands of her preceptors, at the aga |
of twenty, father and daughter had
spent five years in travel, visiting a
few of the known points of interest |
and a great many of the unknown. |
Then the Hon. J. Burden had peace
fully departed this life, leaving all
his worldly possessings to his daught- |
er,
Perhaps some of this was passing |
through Miss Burden's ever-busy |
brain as she sat idly chipping the
rock beside her with the odd-looking
little hammer held Perhaps |
and what is more probable—she was |
thinking of one or the other of
new hobbles—geology and children.
Of the two, children—and the ragged. |
er and the dirtier apparently the bet- |
ter—held the first place in Miss Ada
lalde Burden's heart.
“Say, you hain’t
ye?
Miss Burden prided herself on her |
nerves. So it was when this abrupt |
question was fired into her solitude. |
she merely ralsed her eyes slowly |
till they met those of the speaker. |
Then she started, and for a moment
gazed in surprise. Over the rock |
she had been listlessly chipping ap- |
peared the head of an angel—a shock |
of waving golden ringlets framing a
face of perfect oval, with a skin of |
the traditional “roses and milk;” vio- |
let blue eyes shaded by long raven |
black lashes, and Cupid bow lips of |
moist carmine parted to show beyond |
a gleam of pearls.
“You hain't be ye? inquired
angel, impatient for reply.
“Well, no-—that is, not exactly”
replied Miss Durden, slowly, eveling
the angelic face wonderingly.
The angel, minus the wings, now
came around the rock and took up its
stand in front of her, resolving itself
into a very dirty little boy of twelve
or thirteen.
“lI didn't know,” explained the boy.
“I see ye had er lot of spec’mens, and
ye was hackin’ at ther outcrop like
ye was.”
Miss Burden's answer was to take
one of the grimy little hands In hers
and draw the boy down on the rock |
beside her, where with one arm
around him she nestled him close |
against her. The boy viewed this
performance with wondering eyes,
but offered no resistance to the eca-
ress,
Once snugly ensconced, Miss Pur.
den sald: “Now tell me your name—
mige is Adelaide Burden”
“Min'e Pericles Finerty, Wheredju
live?”
“Where do I live? "Most anywhere ™
At this the boy turned a solemn,
questioning look upon her, and then
remarked, gravely: “Now you're kid.
din’
“No, I'm not,
Miss Burden,
“Wel, then,
that?"
Miss Burden smiled.
“It is this way,” she explained. “1
have a little money and no relatives
and like to travel, so that really I
have no home.”
The boy's blue eyes opened wider
still and they fairly sparkled as ha
said:
“By jove! ain't that great? Then,
seeing the surprised look on her face,
“say, that ain't swear, is it?”
“Oh, no, that's not swearing. But
what makes you ask?”
“Oh, dad says no gent’'man swears
in the presence pf a lady, and that
swearin’ Is a useless sort of vice”
she
her |
prospecting, be
the |
really,” protested
whatjer mean by
“Does your ‘father ever swear?”
“Oh, lots, but he says it's only be-
cauce when you's in Philistia do as
Phil'stines do."
This was too much for Miss Bur-
den's gravity, and she laughed long
and loud, the boy's high falsetto join-
ing in until the rocks rang with the
musie,
“Say,” sald the boy, suddenly,
want some zirkins?"”
“Zircon crystals?”
“l guess 80. I know where they's
some dandles”
“Yes, I would like to get some.”
“All right; come on; ’'tain’t far’
“Now tell about yourself,” she
questioned, as they climbed the steep
hillside. “Where do you lve?”
“Up there,” with a nod up the can-
yon,
“With your father and mother?"
“Mother's dead. Dad an’ I bach
itr
“What is
she persisted.
The boy did not answer, and the
glimpse she caught of his face showed
it hard and set in an ugly, deflant
scowl,
Miss Burden saw she was treading
on dangerous ground, and at once
changed her tactics. Taking a base
of advantagh of her sex, she sald:
“Dont go so fast; you must remem-
ber 1 can't climb like you can. I
“ fu
your father--a miger?
exhausted,
a moment the boy was beside
the hard look gone, his face
long with contrition.
“Please forgive me,”
“I=-I didn't think.”
“Why, certainly, dear”
tell me, who named
In
her,
he pleaded
she sald.
you Per
icles.”
“Dad did, I ’spect.”
“Did he ever tell
other Pericles?”
“Oh, yes,” and his eyes began to
“1 know all about him and
all the rest of them old fellers, but
I don’t like them so much-—they's too
much like falry stories. Tell
what I do like, though—"
“Yes?
you about the
*
that feller Porthos a buster, though?”
“The Three Guardsmen?
“Yes, them's the fellers. Dad told
me all about them-—but this ain't
gettin® zirkins. If you're rested we'll
try again.”
Another long, hard climb and thes
stepped on the narrow shelf
platformed the entrance to what was
evidently an abandoned mine
ing out a short stub of a candle, the
lighted
tunnel
“Come on™ he called
shoulder. “Ye can git
kins here ve can lug”
For half an hour
voices and the click,
on rock came softly from the mige.
Then the volces grew more and more
listinet, and a faint yellow gleam
could be seen coming nearer
At last the light stopped and
over his
11 the zir-
ai
the sound
“What is it, Miss; found some
“No, I'm coming” answerad
voloe farther back in the darkness.
As if the vibration of the voice had
a trem through the rocks and
ering from the
rcof. For a moment the light way-
ersd, then fell spluttdring on the
damp floor
“Hurry,
mor rman
Miss Burden, hurry! It's
cavin’ In!” and in the dim light that
streaked in through the entrance
Miss Burden saw the boy. his face |
against the opposite wall of the nar-
row passage, thrust his
against one of the “props”
ported the roof,
“Jump right over moe—don't stop—
screamed the
form qulvering with
that dup-
boy, his
the strain,
As Mise Burden sprang over him
she saw the “prop” was bulging out
little
i
™ show ge NMOw much there's left™
“Mister” drew back with a grin.
“Ef I hed know'd it war Finerty's
brat I'd know'd jest a little thing
like a cavein 'ud never killed him."
Then, with his head In the opening,
“Took out, Fid, I'm coming” and he
disappeared through the hole, fol-
lowed by one of the others,
For a few minutes from Inside
came sharp commands and the sound
of men laboring. Outside the others
lifted and pulled in response to the
commands. Then a joyful shout of
“There you are!” and a slight figure,
an almost undistinguishable mass of
mud and dirt, one leg dangling, was
handed out and lald carefully on the
ground,
Miss Burden took the solled head
with ite golden curls in her lap, while
one of the men, with a deftness which
showsd practice, slit the stocking
from the injured limb and proceeded
to set the brokem bone, improvising
splints from a cracker box brought
up from the “hack.”
“There!” sald the self-constituted
surgeon, as he finished his task, “In
two months’ time you'll be able to
got out and break the other leg.”
had hardly winced, only now and then
tightening his grasp on Miss Bur
den's hand, his eyes watching every
move of the operator. Now he heav-
ed a sigh of relief, and, turning his
eyes up to Miss Burden, said:
“Say, 1 ain't 80 big, but I done that
‘most as good as Porthos, didn't 1?”
smiled, and fainted, while Miss Bur
den's tears, falling on his face, left
the dirt and grime.
New York News
THE FOREST RESERVES.
A Western View of the Need of Pro
tective Measures.
people of the Pacific
The States
future prosperity depends largely up
i
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$
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It 18 partly sincere and partly
The sincere portion arises
ignorance of the relation be
only.
from
How dense this ignor-
is may be gathered from cer
newspaper articles, which as
that the only purpose of the
irriga
on the other.
ance
tain
sume
This is really only a small
their purpose. Mining
upon them quite as much as irrigas
part
perpetuity of the forest reserves. The
portion of the
that shame
sacrifice the future welfare of
whole country to the immediate pro
i fit of a few timber barons.
with home making in the slightest de
| gree
{ the government to open all agricul
home makers to
mestic use. It is
a way as to feed the
by building homes.
i sert the
wilfully blind
anxiety for
ungerupulous cupldity, which would
ruin every home In Oregon and Wash-
ington if it were not checked.
Irrigation and water supply aside,
to the facts.
of timber cannot last much
the market.
with the welght that was
pressing down from above
It was haedly a second before she
sprang out of the tunnel, and that |
slowly |
:
turned
louder rumble, a splintering of wood.
flying down the mountain side the
to close and the tun.
nel was gone.
chief characteristics. One look
gave, then flew down the hill with a
swiftness and vigor that gave the
lle to her seeming weakness when
climbing up that same path but a
short time before. In five minutes
she had reached the county road, an-
other minute and she had halted one
of the “hacks” that now usurp the
functions of the obsolete stage be
tweon Colorow and the “Creek” By
an apparently special act of Provi-
denice, the “back” held for passeng-
ers four miners on thelr way to the
diggings of Beaver Dam,
A few words explained the situa.
tion, and In a quarter of an hour
from the time of the cavein five
men wore at work oving the rock
and debris that hk the entrance of
the tunnel,
Even Milas url was lifting and
dragging at rocks she had never
dreamed it possible to move.
Soon an opening was made and
the workers began to move more
carefully and to speak In lower tones.
“Reckon there ain't much left of
th’ poor leetle devil,” whispered the
driver, peering into the cavern.
“Don’t ye gamble on that, mister”
remarked a faint volee from within.
“If yo'll jest lift this timber 1 bit
! foreign markets we act like a prodl
gal who squanders his inheritance.
In a few years we must go begging
folly of forest waste, which the gov.
ren land. Would they not gladly ex-
areas of reserved forests?
helps more the development of a
tract of uninhabitable desert?—Port
land Oregonian.
Narcosis by Blue Rays.
A dentist at Geneva, Dr. Radard,
experiments with the narcotic effect
of blue light, has submitted his re
sully to the Swiss Soclety of Odon-
tology. He claims that a complete
narcosis can be obtained If the rays
of a blue electric light are brought
te bear ou the human eye, while all
other rays of light, particularly of
daylight, are kept off it. The nar
cosls thus obtained is so complete
that, during the same, little dental
operations, snch as pulling or filing
teeth, ete, can be executed without
causing the patient the least amount
of pain. While the effect of the blue
rays Is a very strong one, that of
violet-blue and green rays is less In
tensive, and yellow or red rays show
no effect at all, The Inventor is as
yot ynable to give a definition of the
cause remarkable discovery.
How York Tims.
A statistician declares {hat It costs
$25,000 to rear a boy in New York
city. Some of the young men on
Broadway, snarls the Washington
Star, do not appear to be worth it.
It is sad for the New York Amer:
can to read that burglars cultured
enough to rald an art store should fall
before the commercial spirit sufficient
ly to include in their booty the
register,
O.al
can marry any
asserts Gertrude Ather-
ton. Every day seems to bring some-
thing new for the men worry
about, whines the Washington Post
“Any woman
she wants,”
to
in South Africa is responsible for the
‘sleeping sickness.” Around here, in
sists the Washington Post, in the
summer it is to blame
awake,
A G-months-old St
suing his grandfather
There's precocity for you,
the New York Herald. Knows
only his pa, but his grandpa!
baby
slander.
Louis
for
determine wheth
er or not a witness ig telling
truth may be all right, thinks
Washington Star, but there are
that they will merely the
for new complications in expert testi
mony.
Scientific tests to
the
apen
investigation
doubt that
has
the
Long
beyond presence
certain, ob
ican,
rainfall. It is
serves the New
some of our most disastrous
have been due to the wirespread and
reckless destruction of the
equally
York Amer
trees.
There are no hogs kept as free from
conditions that as
those in the great corn raising States
of the Union. They are not fed on
slops and garbage, declares the New
Orleans Plcayeune, as are in
most European countries. However,
the time is not far away when all
the meat product of the United
States will needed by our
people, and there be none
port, so that the
countries will
tarians in spite of
cause disease
those
be
to ex
European
vege
will
poor of
have to become
themselves
Professor F E Jaffa, after putting
some students of Berkeley on a diet
of peanuts, reports that tem cents
worth of the contain more
than twice the protein and six times
the amount of energy embraced in a
porterhouse steak The essential
question arises, to the New York
Sun, whether the peanut bulk is to
be masticated a la Fletcher or to be
gulped according to Wiley.
goobers
Says the Cleveland Plain Dealer:
If people must wear coverings for
their heads—and there is such a ne
cessity under certain conditions—the
straw hat as a sunshade and the cap
as a scalp warmer would seem to be
appropriate. For all round utility the
cap is probably the best headgear
ever Invented. It might not be a
bad idea to have an international com-
mission appointed to solve the prob
lem.
It is sald that threefourths of the
white people of Georgia are rejoleing
over the passage of the prohibition
law and are determined to uphold it.
It seems to be purely an economical
measure to the Minneapolis Tribune.
One of the prohibition leaders in the
Legislature declared that it was
equivalent to the immediate introduc
tion into Georgia of 100,000 desirable
laborers.
A former general of the National
Guard recently criticised the admin
{stration of the United States Army
because it neglected to seize upon the
military possibilities of automobiles
Major Hersey, chief inspector of the
Weather Bureau, complains that the
army is deficient in balloons by con
trast to the Ewuropsan contingents
But the country, suggests the Provi
dence Journal, will not quite despair
go long as the army can march and
shoot.
The new proposition in Prussia to
reserve cars on Saturday night rail
way trains for the intoxicated is novel
and startling, but it will have the
sympathetic approval of decent folks
all over the world, asserts the New
York Times. The drunken man in a
public conveyance is an Intolerable
nuisance the world over.
Cured By Nineteen Days’ Fast.
After fasting for nineteen days,
Mrs. Robert Barry, of this city, re
cently walked for the first time in
thirteen months. For a long time she
had been bedridden with dropsy and
rheumatism. She heard of a man suf.
fering from the same afflictions, who
had been cured by fasting, and re
solved as a last. resort, to try the
remedy. She claims she will be com-
pletely cured In a few weeks.
The presence In San Bernardina of
Dr. Tanner, who fasted for forty days,
and who has made his home here for
several months, is sald to have en
couraged Mrs. Barry in her drastic
method of treatment and adds addi
tonal interest to the feat.—San Ber
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JEORGE CROGHAN, HERO.
but August 2,
fame
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for Major George
2, 1908,
hero were
his great victory.
sent by General
poor little stockade,
Fort Stephenson, at Lawer Sandusky,
now Fremont, Ohio, The place was
only because it guarded
the approach to Harrison's headquanr
ters and stores, up the Sanday |
On the morning of August 1 Gen
| eral Proctor, the British commander
with 500 regulars, veteran
gunboats of
fleet,
ers,
Commodore
bard the fort
with 700 Indians, swarmed through |
the opposite side. To one of a less |
age than the young commander,
| Situation must have seemed hopeless |
under him,
Groghan had 180
{ from place to place to induce the be
{ lief that he had several guns. Late
in the afternoon of the 24 the enemsy
made a united assault. So valiantly
| and effectively was it repulsed that
| ‘he whole British and Indian force
| made precipitate retreat into Canada
“It will not be the least of General
| Proctor’s mortifications.” wrote Har.
| tison, “to know that he has been
| baffled by a youth who has Just
nassed his twenty-first year. He is,
however, a hero worthy of his gallant
incle, General George Rogers Clark.”
Croghan himself wrote fust before
the battle: “The enemy are not far
distant. I expect an attack. 1 will
defend this post to the last extrem-
ity. I have just sent away the wom-
garrison that I may be able to act
incumbrance. Be satisfied.
{ shall, I hope, do my duty. The ex-
aniple set me by my Revolutionary
kindred is before me. Let me die
rather than prove unworthy of thelr
name."
The battle of Fort Stephenson was
the first really brilliant effort of the
War of 1812, General Sherman said
it was “‘the necessary precursor to
Perry's victory on the lake and Harri
won’s triumphant vietory at the
Thames, which assured to our imme-
diate ancestors the mastery of the
great West, and from that day to this
the West has been the bulwark of
the nation.”
For his exploit Croghan was bre-
vetted lieutenant-colonel by the Pres-
fdent of the United States, and Con-
gress awarded him a gold medal.
Some months ago the grave of Col-
onel Croghan was found in a neglect.
ed family burying ground in Ken
tucky. The remains were taken to
Fremont, and on the ninety-third an-
niversary of the battle were rein.
Jerre on the site of the former vie-
ry.
Fremont is unique in possessing
her old fort in its original area, with
its original armament and with the
body of its defender, and her citizens
cherish the honor of living where of
old time a great act was greatly done.
~Youth's Companion.
A SN SHON SO. Sh SR
MUCH THE SAME.
*1 understand yon married a tan.
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they met in after years.
“Well, something like that,” an.
swered the other,
country school veneer,
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